Concrete driveway cost

Hi All, I got two quotes to repave my driveway. One was $11.5k and the other $9.5k. This includes aggregate concrete with paver borders, widening the approach to 20 feet and changing it to a gentler slope. Total paved area is 500 sq feet. Is this the going rate in the South Bay? I am wondering if I should shop around some more.

BTW, just doing the approach is $3.3k! I called the city of Santa Clara about the permit and they warned me it would be about $3k for the work which sounded very high to me.

Re: Concrete driveway cost

Shop around! Also if you can wait it out all contractors right now are slammed with work and are charging high prices. We have a couple of projects on the todo list and have decided to do much of it our selves to cut the cost. In one case just the demo work was nearly the same cost as the actual new work the contractor was doing. So we are doing demo in this case its about 3hrs work for two people. Your driveway project I would ask for two quotes from each contractor one for demo and hauling away the debri and one for just the new work post demo. You may find that it is FAR FAR cheaper to hire a lower skilled group of folks to do the demo and simply have the contractor come in post demo and lay in the new material.

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I just did the sidewalk in front of my house in San Jose (tree root damage meant the sidewalk was my responsibility) and the best quote I got was $1.8K which I took, this is to redo the *sidewalk* in front of my house- TINY!

Re: Concrete driveway cost

We did something similar a year ago. About the same sq ft but it also included a curving path towards the front steps. However we did not redo the approach or sidewalk so no permits were required from the city. The total was around $6,000.

It included removing and hauling about 300 sq ft of old/cracking driveway, removing a small tree and getting rid of about 200 sq ft of grass (We converted a single-car driveway to a dual-car). We used Bouton Construction http://www.yelp.com/biz/bouton-construction-los-gatos